Question

How did Helen feel that a visit to Midway Plaisance was like the Arabian Nights??

(From Helen kellers book story of my life )

Answer 1

The ‘Arabian Nights’ relates the stories of love and adventure. They are full of novelty and interest. Helen could cover different places at one place. She saw India with its Shivas and Elephant Gods. There was the land of the Pyramids concentrated in a model, Cairo with it mosques and its long processions of camels. There were the lagoons of Venice also. She went on board a Viking ship which lay a short distance from the little craft. She touched the diamonds and everything fascinated her, especially the French bronzes. “They were so lifelike, I thought they were angel visions which the artist had caught and bound in earthly forms”. A little distance from the ship there was a model of the Santa Maria, which she also examined. The captain showed her Columbus’s cabin and the desk with an hour-glass on it. The small instrument impressed her the most because it made her think how weary the heroic navigator must have felt as he saw the sand dropping grain by grain while desperate men were plotting against his life. She was fascinated with everything as it was like a dream. So, she said that Midway Pleasance was like the Arabian Nights.